Profile (SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media & Democracy)
Profiles the disagreement between Gen. Shinseki and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld over the troop levels necessary to stabilize postwar Iraq.
"The relationship, never close, hit the rocks when Rumsfeld let it be known in April that he had decided to name Gen. John Keane, the Army's vice chief of staff, as its next chief, 15 months before its current chief, Gen. Eric Shinseki, was scheduled to retire. This immediately made Shinseki a lame duck and undercut his ambitious 'transformation' agenda, which he had set forth in late 1999."
"In this profile of General Eric K. Shinseki, the Army's Chief of Staff, ... Peter J. Boyer examines the ways in which the Pentagon and the Department of Defense disagree about the future of the Army."
Speech by General Eric K. Shinseki (Ret.), Go For Broke Educational Foundation, 3rd Annual Evening of Aloha, November 10, 2004.
" Since his retirement in June 2003, Shinseki has restricted his public appearances to foreign policy and university audiences. Early this month at Pomona College, he outlined his policy for a post-Cold War Army equipped to deal with a multitude of duties."